Super Nothing
In the world premiere of Miguel Gutierrez’s “Super Nothing,” the quartet of performers fly through the vast, empty black box theater at New York Live Arts, small forms cast out like particles of light.
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Who doesn’t love the circus—especially nouveau cirque? With its unclassifiable blend of genres, it reflects so much of what it means to be human—the comedy, absurdity, beauty, sadness, delight, and more. Always tinged with physical risk or challenge, circus inspires childlike wonder. So when I noticed PS21’s dedicated programming of cirque offerings this season, I made the trip upstate to the Hudson Valley to this progressive contemporary arts venue on a bucolic, 100-acre campus. The venue, with its open-air Pavilion theater, was the ideal setting for the US premiere of “Runners,” by Cirk la Putyka from the Czech Republic.
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In the world premiere of Miguel Gutierrez’s “Super Nothing,” the quartet of performers fly through the vast, empty black box theater at New York Live Arts, small forms cast out like particles of light.
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Continue ReadingNever forget!” With the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day both having been recognized last month, these words, although unspoken, coursed through Melissa Barak’s first evening-length ballet, “Memoryhouse.”
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